'The Bridge' intranet - Phase 2
UX-Media was tasked with the integration of a completely new design for The Carnival Group's existing intranet - 'The Bridge' while also integrating new features, some bespoke, some pre-built modules.
The project made heavy use of jQuery and custom ASP.NET User Controls, some of which were written as part of the 'The Bridge' intranet - Phase 1 project.
'The Bridge' is available to Carnival's employee's worldwide, including cruise-liner employees, this made the problem of ensuring the application was deployed and replicated correctly of paramount importance.
To help facilitate the deployment to Carnival's fleet, I developed a module-based deployment tool written as a .NET Windows Forms application that would generate a change-set given two versions of the Bridge.
The deployment process involved comparing an two versions of the application, generating a directory containing the changed files and a T-SQL file containing the changes between databases. Once this change-set had been generated, the contents would then be taken and the deployment application would then perform an in-place upgrade at other deployed locations, such as their cruise-liners.
